..To present estimates of the lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders with and without severe impairment, their comorbidity across broad classes of disorder, and their sociodemographic correlates...

The structured diagnostic interview for sleep patterns and disorders: rationale and initial evaluation

..We aimed to describe and report the initial validity of a newly developed structured interview for sleep disorders (Diagnostic Interview for Sleep Patterns and Disorders [DISP]) administered by trained lay interviewers...

..Although techniques such as latent class analysis have been used to derive empirically based subtypes of depression in adult samples, there is limited information on subtypes of depression in youth...

Specificity of bipolar spectrum conditions in the comorbidity of mood and substance use disorders: results from the Zurich cohort study

..Throughout each of these aims, implications of the comorbidity are explored, including whether these patterns reflect a need for redefining the disorders or rather an etiologic or even causal path...

Service utilization for lifetime mental disorders in U.S. adolescents: results of the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)

..The aim of this paper is to examine the familial aggregation of cannabis use disorders and other psychiatric conditions among first-degree relatives and spouses of probands with a cannabis use disorder...

Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of bipolar spectrum disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey replication

..We propose that complex diseases with the strongest evidence for genetic etiology, limited ability to modify exposure or risk factors, and high public health impact should have the highest priority for genetics research...

Longitudinal trajectories of depression and anxiety in a prospective community study: the Zurich Cohort Study

Nancy C P LowMood and Anxiety Disorders Program of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services in Bethesda, Maryland MD 20892 2670, USACNS Spectr 8:433-4, 437-44. 2003

..Further research is indicated and necessary to elucidate the precise mechanism of migraine comorbidity...

Vulnerability factors for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

..Although acculturation to the United States has been associated with an increase in substance, mood, and anxiety disorders in Latino populations, few studies have examined this concept relative to comorbidity among these syndromes...

Sociodemographic predictors of transitions across stages of alcohol use, disorders, and remission in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

Amanda KalaydjianIntramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20893, USACompr Psychiatry 50:299-306. 2009

..Although much is known about risk factors for the initiation of alcohol use, abuse, and dependence, few population-based studies have examined the predictors of transitions across these stages...

Fear-potentiated startle to threat, and prepulse inhibition among young adult nonsmokers, abstinent smokers, and nonabstinent smokers

..These trends highlight the need to identify barriers to treatment for adolescents with bipolar disorder and demonstrate that those in treatment are not representative of youth with bipolar disorder in the general population. ..

..To prepare for shifts to more complex genetic models, the committee recommended that the NIMH develop new interdisciplinary training strategies to prepare for the next generation of genetics research...

Prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in adolescents. Results from the national comorbidity survey replication adolescent supplement